Lamentations 4:8-10

Expanded Bible

⁸ But now ·they [^Ltheir faces] are blacker than coal,
    and no one recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin ·hangs [or shrivels] on their bones;
    it is as dry as wood.

⁹ Those who were ·killed [^Lpierced] ·in the war [^Lby the sword] were better off
    than those ·killed [^Lpierced] by ·hunger [famine].
They ·starve in pain and die [drain/waste away],
    ·because there is no food from the field [^Ldeprived of the produce of the field; Jer. 11:22; 14:12–18].

¹⁰ With their own hands ·kind [compassionate] women
    ·cook [boil] their own children.
They became food
    when ·my [^Lthe daughter of my] people were ·destroyed [fractured; broken; Deut. 28:56–57].